Directed attention fatigue
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 101 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5138-7125-5
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Directed Attention Fatigue (DAF) is a neurological phenomenon that results from overuse of the brain’s inhibitory attention mechanisms, which handle incoming distractions while maintaining focus on a specific task. The greatest threat to a given focus of attention is competition from other stimuli that can cause a shift in focus. This is because one maintains focus on a particular thought not by strengthening that particular mental activity, but by inhibiting all potential distractions. A temporary condition, DAF occurs when a particular part of the brain’s global inhibitory system is overworked due to the suppression of increasing numbers of stimuli. It is important to note that Directed Attention Fatigue is not a clinical illness or a personality disorder. It is rather a temporary fatigue of the inhibitory mechanisms in the brain. According to Inhibition Theory, it is natural for one to alternate between periods of attention and...
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